Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-10

and luxuries OF life were more easily OBJ
tanned, and induced their fellowmen to
60 with them to found new cities and de-
velop new country. In time, the over
clowding Of these newly-founded COM
munities created a new school of ambi-
tious pioneers who sought for and found
wherein to plant young and more
prosperous civilization. Thus have we
seen the star of empire move along from
place to place, sweeping before 1t all the
puny opposition of man. 1t is not alone
judgment which guides people in this
matter. 1t is more an animal instinct
than otherwise. The whole race OF AMI
mails belonging to the brute creation Sc
lect unerringly the localities and environ
m.nts best adapted to their welfare. In
other words, they 90 where the necessa-
ries of life are most easily OBJ
tanned. The people of Europe are
nocking to America annually from
their own over crowded homes,
because in the new world the price OF eX-
istence is less than where they live.
That great fundamental law of self-pre-
servation, with its various ramifcations,
is forever leading men onward to where
they can not only sustain life, but to
where the fruits of labor are greater, rem
dering the accumulation of wealth posi-
BILE. So, too, in the north and east,
which sections of the Union are becoming
peopled with Europeans and natives to
such an extent that the necessaries of
life are more difficult to obtain than in
the southwest, sll who can, or who have
an intelligent conception of this country,
are coming here. Capital chung to the
delights of society for long time, until
il could scarcely secure an existence, but
finally concluded il best to come snd
trough it," These natural laws are be-
ginning to be more ard more appreciated
every day. Existence being the basic
principle Of life, and accumulation the
special pursuit of capital, each gravitates
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be accomplished in the easiest manner.
Common sense teaches men that
they can supply themselves with the
neCessaries OF life easier on q farm in
Texas than in The city OF New York. and
business sense convinces the manufaC-
turer that the railroad freight from Texas
to Boston and return is more than he is
making on his manufactured goods, and,
that by coming south, he can save all
this. Il is most unnatural, and piece Of
commercialfolly,to haul the products OF the
soil across the country in order to pre-
pare them for market. 1t is q most
glaring outrage, from an economic stand
point. New England has no right TO
q solitary spindle. Those sections where
cotton is raised should also manufacture
1t. The south should not pay one dol
lars tribute TO New York; not because it
is north, but because, on the principle
that governs mankind OF doing things the
best and easiest way, it is cheaper and
easier to make everything the south wants
at home. The interstate commerce bill
viii compel, to a certain extent, the OBJ
servance of natural laws of business. It's
enforcement will equsIize matters, keep
people scattered out over the country snd
prevent budding together in cities. Ii
will cause the south to do her own manu-
featuring, and give legitimate enterprises
q chance to flourish. The capitalists of
the country see and know this, hence they
are coming where the natural laws of
business impel them.